Seven leading international writers discuss the genesis, libretto and music, and performance and ...

The transformation of Vienna and the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century was acc...

'Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera,' writes Arthur Groos...

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde occupies a singular position in the history of Western culture. What ...

This wide-ranging history explores German opera from its primitive origins up to Wagner.

'Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera,' writes Arthur Groos...

This book explores the cultural and commercial life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century L...

An examination of the world of Vienna and the opera buffa in the eighteenth-century.

This guide presents a unique collection of critical, analytical, and documentary essays on Puccin...

Explores the cultural life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century London.

German opera from its primitive origins up to Wagner is the subject of this wide-ranging history,...

This volume in the Arthurian Characters and Themes series treats the fascinating character of Per...